All Chapters of The Dare to Ruin Him, Falling for My Step Brother : Chapter 101 - Chapter 110

SEBASTIAN'S POV"Walk me to my next lecture."Those were the last words Eli spoke to me in that corridor. I walked beside him across the entire campus with his shoulder occasionally brushing mine, neither of us speaking. Best and worst twenty minutes of my life simultaneously.He turned left at the literature building door, pulled it open, looked back at me once.Not a long look. Just a second. Just enough.Then he went inside and the door closed and I stood on the path for approximately thirty seconds before turning around and walking home.**************************************************"She knows."Bianca stood at the bottom of the stairs when I walked through the front door. Those two words hit me before I even closed it properly.I stopped. "What?""Your mother." Her eyes were wide. "She knows Sebastian. Not suspects. Knows." She stepped closer, voice dropping immediately. "Mrs Carter called twenty minutes ago. The board decision went through the university official system, so

ELI'S POV"So he actually said it?"Jasmine dropped her tray across from mine in the cafeteria and leaned forward with both elbows on the table, eyes wide, coffee completely forgotten beside her."Keep your voice down." I replied."I am keeping my voice down." She insisted. "Did he actually say it Eli? Out loud? In a corridor? Those exact words?""Those exact words." I confirmed.She sat back and picked up her coffee and looked at me over the rim with an expression sitting somewhere between I told you so and genuine emotional devastation on my behalf."And you told him to figure it out." She noted."Yes." I replied."To Sebastian Hale." She noted. "Who just told you he was in love with you. After being cleared by a university board. After getting Devon expelled. After everything." She paused. "You looked that man in the eye and told him to figure it out.""I also told him I had never hit anyone in my life." I replied. "And that he should draw his own conclusions from that."She set he

SEBASTIAN'S POV"Put your phone away."Eli whispered it without looking at me, his pen moving across his notebook, eyes fixed on the board at the front of the lecture hall.I put my phone away.Professor Daniels was halfway through something about post colonial narrative structures that I was making a genuine effort to follow and failing at completely because Eli was sitting beside me and his knee was exactly three inches from mine and I had been aware of exactly three inches for the past forty minutes."You are not listening." Eli whispered."I am listening." I whispered back."Four words in twenty minutes." He whispered, eyes still forward.I looked at my notebook.He was not wrong."The lecture is not that interesting." I whispered."Write it down anyway." He whispered.I picked up my pen and wrote two more words then put it back down and looked at the side of his face instead because that was considerably more interesting than anything Professor Daniels had said all morning.He ha

SEBASTIAN'S POV"Alternative arrangements."I stared at Bianca's message on my phone and felt something cold move through my chest."What does that mean?" Eli noted from beside me, reading over my shoulder."It means she knew." I noted. "About the dissolution. About Bianca leaving. She knew this morning before she called me.""Before she suggested Thursday lunch." Eli noted."Yes." I confirmed.We were standing outside the east lecture building where Bianca's message had reached us mid conversation and the campus was moving normally around us completely indifferent to the fact that everything had just shifted again."She planned the lunch knowing Bianca was already leaving." Eli noted."Yes." I confirmed."Which means the lunch was never about finding out how much I matter to you." Eli noted. "She already knows that.""Yes." I confirmed."So what is it actually about?" He pressed.I looked at him."The clause." I noted. "Bianca told you about the clause.""Yes." Eli confirmed."Then y

SEBASTIAN'S POV"Close the door."Mr George did not look up from his desk when we walked in. His reading glasses were on, a thick folder open in front of him, three different documents spread across the surface with handwritten notes in the margins.Eli closed the door.We sat down.Mr George still did not look up. He turned one page. Then another. His pen moving across the margin in that small precise script of his. The office completely quiet except for the scratch of it and the heating and the clock on the wall."Sir." I pressed carefully."One moment." He said flatly.We waited.He turned one more page, wrote something, capped his pen, and looked up at us over his glasses."The fraternity investigation documentation." He disclosed, tapping the folder. "Specifically the section relating to the Hale family's institutional connections with this university." He paused. "Your mother has three named positions on this university's external advisory board Sebastian."I stared at him. "Thr